Expert in society, democracy and leadership in the digital world

Alexandra Borchardt is Director of Strategic Development at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University and an expert in digitization, democracy and society.

Until June 2017 she war Managing Editor of Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), Germany?s leading quality daily. She was also editor of ?Plan W?, an award winning quarterly magazine for women and business, that she launched in 2015.

At SZ she held several functions in the politics and business sections. In her reporting she focuses on democracy and the internet and the future of work. She teaches ?Leadership and strategy in the 21st century? at TU Munich and gives lectures and talks on digitization, democracy and the media. In 2015 she published ?Das Internet zwischen Diktatur und Anarchie: Zehn Thesen zur Demokratisierung der digitalen Welt? (Süddeutsche Zeitung Edition Streitschrift). Before joining SZ she worked in several functions for Financial Times Deutschland and Deutsche Presse-Agentur.

Alexandra holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Tulane University, New Orleans (1994), and in 2013 completed a Program for Management Development at IESE Business School, Barcelona.

She lives in Oxford and in the Munich area with her husband and two children.